Category: Data Storage
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How to Reduce Your Power BI Model Size by 90%
How to Reduce Your Power BI Model Size by 90% Have you ever wondered what makes Power BI so fast and powerful when it comes to performance? Learn on a real-life example about data model optimization and general rules for reducing data model The post How to Reduce Your Power BI Model Size by 90%…
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Parquet File Format – Everything You Need to Know!
Parquet File Format – Everything You Need to Know! With the amount of Data growing exponentially in the last few years, one of the biggest challenges has become finding the most optimal way to store various data flavors. Unlike in the (not so far) past, when relational databases were considered the only way to go,…
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Anatomy of a Parquet File
Anatomy of a Parquet File In recent years, Parquet has become a standard format for data storage in Big Data ecosystems. Its column-oriented format offers several advantages: Faster query execution when only a subset of columns is being processed Quick calculation of statistics across all data Reduced storage volume thanks to efficient compression When combined…